Morning started slow, breakfast was nice. We got out about 930, later than I would have liked, but it was raining. Actually dumping would be better description. We pulled on our rain gear, covered our packs and hit the trail.
Up the hill to town, skirting edge of town we followed the shells and arrows leading our way. After town, turned into gravel road, which turned into mud road, then mud trail. Some spots were more like a creek, we got pretty wet.
My feet seemed to be doing OK, hoping that trend would continue. We walked and walked for what seemed forever. Today was more trails than the usual pavement, it was nice change.
Took break about 1130, decided after taking off my shoes and socks, we'd keep going. That was about 5 miles into the day. We'd planned on going all way to Soto de Luina, which was about 11 miles.
During my break, discovered my rain jacket, wasn't water proof, it was seeping through. I was wet all way through and getting cold, so we had to keep moving.
Hit trail again, more rain off and on. One step at time. We took another break at mile 9ish, my feet were starting to complain. Not as bad as day before, but they were unhappy. I knew we were close, just couldn't tell from book how close (book lacks lots of helpful information ).
Paulette offered to see if we could thumb a ride, we'd been successful both other times, but I was determined to walk all the way today. 45 minutes later after a long descent, we'd arrived. And a hostel was the first place in town.
We'd walked 11 miles, that was good enough for me.
We decided not to bother looking for albergue, it only had 16 spots and we figured it was full. There were 12 people directly in front of us on trail and we knew there were others.
Bargain rate of 25€ for room at hostel and we didn't have to worry about symphony of snoring men. We shuffled our stuff to room and then ran back for late lunch. Kitchen was closing in half hour.
We ate, drank, and relaxed. Time to soak my feet, shower and nap. Being already wet and cold the hot water on my feet felt fabulous. Hot shower topped off my afternoon.
After a 2 hour nap, we needed to go to store for few things. Walked into town, 3 blocks, went to store. Just as we were about to leave, it started to dump again. We weren't prepared for rain. It slowed down enough we could walk and not get soaked.
WIFI doesn't work in our room, have to go next door to get signal.
Time to plan tomorrow's walk. Will probably cut back on miles, I need to look at rest of trip to ensure we get enough miles walked each day to finish on October 4th in Santiago de Compostela.
Day Twelve Done!
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